Coloured Pencil Topics CONTENTS NEW CONTENT SITE INFORMATION INTRODUCTION HELP & ADVICE LINE BRANDS DIFFERENCES SURFACES DRY POINT 1 AQUARELLES 1 MIXED MEDIA PASTEL PENCILS GENERAL CP TECHNIQUES WORKING THE SURFACE LANDSCAPE TECHNIQUES ACCESSORIES ART POINTS UKCPS OTHER TUITION COURSES & TUTORIALS BOOKSHELF READERS GALLERY CONTACT Peter W Personal site Recent Work

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Over 150 detailed pages of information for beginners and improvers to help you develop your skills

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PETER WEATHERILL

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I Teach Beginners and also Landscapes in Coloured Pencil, and as a result, my notes tend to concentrate on the techniques for Beginners and for Landscapes. Most of the methods I use can be equally applied to Animals, Flowers and Portraits, but those topics are not covered in detail at present. I am slowly adding some tutorials by other artists. These are all credited on the pages in question.

As new course elements are added, the notes will be included here in ‘Topics’, but usually after the course has run - otherwise potential students wouldn’t bother to attend the courses !

A SUMMARY OF PAGE CONTENT IS GIVEN BELOW

INTRODUCTION

Why use coloured Pencil? : Is it a Drawing or a Painting ?

PENCIL HISTORY

A quick look at the development of the pencil through the centuries

HELP AND ADVICE LINE

A record of queries raised by readers of the site and some of the solutions found

This is a section which welcomes input from all our readers who have experience in the problems raised

BRANDS

A review of the manufacturers producing Coloured Pencils on sale in the UK

With a page for each manufacturer

The Lightfastness of Coloured Pencil pigments - Prices and Ingredients

NEW Colour comparison Charts completed March 2010

DIFFERENCES between Brands

a summary of the main differences

SURFACES

An introduction to the brands of paper available

Coloured Surfaces - particularly black paper and the lightfastness of the colour

Alternatives to paper

How paper is made and preparation of the surface

DRY POINT

Techniques for non-soluble ( wax type ) coloured pencils

with separate sections describing techniques for -

Application of Colour - including colour choice for layering colour

Density of colour

and a look at the different marks used in pencil artwork-

also a note on Wax Bloom and how it occurs

We also now have some information on the availability and use of

Workable Fixatives

AQUARELLES

An introduction

A look at different techniques for using soluble ( watercolour ) pencils

and sections covering:

Underpainting to get stronger and smoother colour down quickly -

Ways of using a brush with pencils -

( especially for landscapes ) a detailed look at techniques for foliage

and alternative solutions for Backgrounds using Aquarelles

MIXED MEDIA

looks at using Coloured Pencils with watercolours, Pastel Pencils and other media

with two Step by Steps using Pastel Pencils and CP

PASTEL PENCILS

A review of brands, surfaces and techniques for using this medium

WORKING THE SURFACE

Including working methods,

Solvents

Blenders and Burnishers

and Managing the Pigment

GENERAL COLOURED PENCIL TECHNIQUES

Sharpening Pencils and Pencil Sharpeners

Backgrounds in Dry Point pencil

- Colour matching -

4 sections on picture Composition -

Complementary colours and Grisaille -

working on black and coloured papers

Working still life pictures - sections 1 and 2

LANDSCAPE TECHNIQUES

Landscape Techniques in general

Clouds and skies

Trees 1 ( Shape & Structure )

Trees 2 ( working them in Watercolour Pencil )

Brick Stone & Tile 1 and 2

There will be notes to come on working pictures of cottages and old farm buildings from vintage black and white photographs

ACCESSORIES

That whole box full of indispensable stuff that we use to make life easier

ART POINTS

A wide variety of sections on general art subjects

All of them useful to a beginner in Art

including :

Perspective - More Perspective -

Golden Section - Reflections over water -

Boats and water reflections -

Contrast and Shadows, why they are important -

Art definitions ‘Form & Space’

Drawing subjects from life

Some advice on methods of approaching the picturing of still life and original solid subjects

Using a camera for reference photos

Methods for transferring a reference image on to the working surface (two sections on one page)

A look at UK copyright -

The importance of relationships in a picture

Finally

A section on Keeping a Record of your work by scan or photo,

and some methods of adjusting the scan or photo of an image to keep a true record of the original.

There is a new page on sizing and printing your images with some notes on layout, printers and ink choice

The site then goes on to provide a series of pages covering :

UKCPS

The United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society

OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Some links to other sites

TUTORIALS

from a list of tutors and courses

To a collection of STEP BY STEP EXERCISES for the viewer to try

In addition, there is a Detailed Step by Step Exercise to work along with

of the packhorse bridge at Allerford in North Somerset

A group of 18 artists of a wide range of abilities have worked along with this exercise in 2009/2010

and discussed their progress via an Internet Discussion Group.

Points from the debates have been posted on this site as the picture developed.

You are welcome to work along with the exercise, and follow the notes on this site.

If you are interested in joining any future group, please let me know via the Contact page

and I will add your name to the list of ‘prospectives’.

BOOKSHELF

the books I have found helpful on my own bookshelf

READERS GALLERY

The gallery is a display of images in Coloured Pencil, Graphite Pencil, Pastel Pencil and Pencil with Mixed Media

All the images appear on worldwide websites and blogs of readers of this site

who have given permission to show an image of their work

CONTACT

How to get in touch with me

COMMENT

There used to be a forum section on the site,

This explains the current position and possibilities for the future

And at the end

The collection of pages that make up my personal website

which has been added here for convenience.

This shows a whole range of images in a variety of media

but not nearly as many as the old personal website used to show

The last page of recent work incorporates work in all media

completed in the last few months

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Latest revision June 2011